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"you only aggravate yourself if you cling to the belief that through better handling of discipline, your child will always comply"

"it's our willpower that allows us to overcome obstacles and propels us toward our dreams. Do you often find you cannot resist, chocolate, shopping, or coffee? Do you have trouble keeping commitments when you have made them to yourself? If you do, you are probably still attaching negative motives to your actions. As a result, you view yourself as incapable of and unequal to the tasks life presents."

"this submission, diminishes marks, willpower, the same willpower he will later need to resist dangerous peer pressure. It is the same willpower. He will need to say yes to healthy risks, and the willpower. We lack when we try to improve our habits, but failed to do so."

"most of you reading this book we're probably good little girls or boys; you submitted. Sadly you're probably still defending yourselves as adults against being wrong bad or stupid. Most of us do this through trying to be perfect or through other compulsive, addictive behaviors."

"you cannot set a limit and take care of another persons feelings at the same time."

"you cannot be assertive if you think a lot about what others think of you. Nor can you be assertive if you fret about what somebody will do or say in response to what you might do or say. To be assertive, you must concentrate on your own actions instead of focusing on what someone else might be thinking about them"